Dump-car.



S., D. WRIGHT.

DUMP GAR.

APPLICATION FILED M315, 1912.

Patented-Jan. 5, 1915.

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'- DUMP-can.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Application led February 15, 1912. Serial No. 677,821.

Toy aZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMSON D. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland,`in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dump-Cars; of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in '.dump cars generally and particularly to the l ofthe car to prevent the swaying of the parts`due to the intense weight and height of the discharge side which is subjected to great strain due to the gravitation'of the load against the side resulting from the in`- y clination of the bottom.

,The invention may be more fullyv briefly 'summarized as consisting in the construction and v combination of parts hereinafter set forth in the following description, drawings and claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a car of this type provided with my device; Fig. 2 is a sectional view; Fig. 3 is a detail Viewer" the gusset members; Fig. 4 is a sectional view upon the line 414-4 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of a brace to be used on the inside of the car.

InV carrying out the invention any preferred form and construction of parts may be employed so long as they possess the necessary characteristics, but I have shown 'one form in the drawings which is highly eli'ective'in operation and in such embodiment 1 represents the frame or bed ot the car mounted upon suitable trucks 2 oneoic which is shown in the drawings. Secured to this bed l are suitable uprights il and 4, shown in Fig. 2. adapted to support a body floor preierably made up of cast plates 5 arranged on channels 6 extending across the car. This floor is inclined from one side ot' the car to the other and secured t'o the ltrarneworlit of the car on the short side is a channel 7 and on the opposite side, which is the dump side of the car. At intervals on this side, are

vertically disposed channels 8 arranged back to back and extending upward for a short distance where they are secured to a .longitudinally disposed angle iron 8 connec'ted to vertically disposed angles 8" to which are secured upper plates 9, the plates and the angles 8 being secured to an u per angle rail 10 at the top. The ends 11 o the car are secured to one of these channels 8 in each case. These supports formed by the channels 8 extend below the bottom or licor of the car for a purpose to be described. Secured in the bottom of Vthese channels above the fioor are suitable guides 12 which receive cast iron doors 13 adapted to slide in these guides. Along the lower front edge of thefloor of the car and underneath the same `is a channel 14 secured to the floor plates and to the transverse channels 6 which support the oor and between this channel and the vertically disposed channels 8 is a gusl set plate 15 of substantially the configura.- tion shown in Fi 3 and extending below the channel 14 w ere it is secured to the downwardly extending portions of the chan' nels 8. This forms a brace for the vertical channels 8 and tends to prevent the swaying of the side of the car. Additional means is provided for doing away with this vswaying movement, and it comprises a pair of cast diaphragm plates 16, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in side'elevation in Fig. 2, and in section in Fig. 5, and these plates are provided with meeting fianges 17 at their upper edges and lower flanges 18 to be secured to the floor of the car and side lianges 19. These plates are arrangedn a manner such that they form an inverted V.- The flanges 19-1are firmly secured to the side 9 of the car while the flanges 18' are firmly secured to the Hoor, and this inverted V- shaped construction, together with the gusset 15, prevents the swaying or endwise movement of the entire dump side of the car, a feature which is of the greatest importance in a car of this type. This inverted V-shaped brace also prevents the outward bulging of the ca'r side.

lla vingl described my invention. I claim 1. In a coke quenching cai-,suitable trucks, a frame supported on said trucks, and a body mounted on said frame comprising a bottom inclined from one side of the car to the other, a vertical side extending from substantially the lower edge of the bottom, dumping doors in said side, and a bracing means for said side comprising. cast inverted Vl shapedl memberv extendingv4 -from and secured tod-'the side and the bottoni, vertically disposed supports arranged 'at intervals along the side and extending below the 15 bottom of the car, and gussets secured to the projected ends ofsaid braces and to the boti tom of the car.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence of two Witnesses as follows.

SAMSON D. WRIGHT. Witnesses:

' ALToN H. BEMIS, C. H. TRETCH. 

